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perused this document, you would have seen that it reduc-
es your interest considerably, though still leaving it a very
handsome one, still leaving it a very handsome one,’ said
Mr. Kenge, waving his hand persuasively and blandly. ‘You
would further have seen that the interests of Mr. Richard
Carstone and of Miss Ada Clare, now Mrs. Richard Car-
stone, are very materially advanced by it.’
‘Kenge,’ said my guardian, ‘if all the flourishing wealth
that the suit brought into this vile court of Chancery could
fall to my two young cousins, I should be well contented.
But do you ask ME to believe that any good is to come of
Jarndyce and Jarndyce?’
‘Oh, really, Mr. Jarndyce! Prejudice, prejudice. My dear
sir, this is a very great country, a very great country. Its sys-
tem of equity is a very great system, a very great system.
Really, really!’
My guardian said no more, and Mr. Vholes arrived. He
was modestly impressed by Mr. Kenge’s professional emi-
nence.
‘How do you do, Mr. Vholes? Willl you be so good as to
take a chair here by me and look over this paper?’
Mr. Vholes did as he was asked and seemed to read it
every word. He was not excited by it, but he was not excit-
ed by anything. When he had well examined it, he retired
with Mr. Kenge into a window, and shading his mouth with
his black glove, spoke to him at some length. I was not sur-
prised to observe Mr. Kenge inclined to dispute what he said
before he had said much, for I knew that no two people ever
did agree about anything in Jarndyce and Jarndyce. But he

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